Easy selection of patch from my Mac?

[Marlowes]

Hi!

I would use my NL2X more if I could jump directly to the right patch (performance) with a mouseclick on my Mac.
Now I have to toggle through a huge amount before I find the 1.D4 I want.
And have the name "Expressive Lead" on the screen of my Mac?

Then I could also hide it under my desk and get room for even more equipment since I have it connected to a good keybed already. Fatar TP 40 - yes I'm a piano guy.

Some kind of patch organizer for Mac ... any ideas, anyone?

[Johannes]

Hi Marlowes,

I remember there was one tool that could do what you want, but it ain't free: http://rekonaudio.com/index.php?page=sh ... &Itemid=29

See also the discussion here: http://www.electro-music.com/forum/topic-24339.html

Other Free Editors for the Lead such as this one http://ctrlr.org/page.php?p=ddb (scroll down, PC and MAC) or this one http://nm-archives.electro-music.com/02 ... or_Editor/ (PC only) only work via Midi CC, so at least the patch names won't be shown (But I am pretty sure if you enter your program structure you can do what you're after (probably easiest in CTRLR, first link) using MIDI Prog/Bank messages.

[mjbrands]

Seems to me that you'd only need some utility on your Mac to send 'bank change' and 'program change' messages, one that ideally shows a configurable name or even better, is able to read the names from a SysEx dump sent from the Lead (so its data is easy to synchronize with the Lead).

Would this cover what you'd need?

Edit: I had the Rekon Audio editor for the Lead 2X. It looked pretty cool but it didn't work for me in Ableton Live (apparently due to a bug in Ableton, which is possible I suppose). They had a newer version that solved this issue, but I would need to pay again to upgrade from 1.x to 2.x. I newer bothered to fork out more cash :-p